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3. C. MEDDIGK.

FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTING ATTAOHMENT FOR ROLLERS.

No. 284,461. Patented Sept; 4, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

SANFORD O.-MEDDIOK, on OVID, NEW YORK.

FE RTILlZER-DISTRIBUTI NG ATTACHM ENT FOR R OLLERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,461, datedSeptember 4,1883.

Application filed May 1,1883. (No 1.10.161.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SANFORD MEnDIo of Ovid, in thecounty of Seneca andState of New York, have invented anew and ImprovedFertilizer-Distributing Attachment for R011- ers, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention .is to improve fertilizer-distributingattachments for rollers,

ashereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be hadto the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan View of a land-roller with my improved fertilizerattachment appled to it. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of Fig. 1 on theline 00 x,- and Figs. 3 and 4 are end eleva tions of the hopper, showingthe contrivance for opening and closing the space through which thefertilizeris to be discharged.

. sion-frame.

I make a rear extension, a, of the frame b of a land-roller of two drumsor cylinders, c, on which extension I arrange a V-shaped fertilizer-hopper, cl, the sides of which, 6 6, drop between the parallelbars f of the said exten- The two sides havev divided overlapping ends2' j, which are pivoted together at k near the top, for opening andclosing the space at I, through which the pulverized material is to bedischarged. The said ends i j are also provided with a binding-screw andnut, m, to fasten them in any position to which the sidesof the hoppermay be set.

To allow the hopper to open at the bottom,

it is required to be raised a little between the bars f, and when saidhopper is closed it will settle down a little between said bars f. Thusthe sides will at all times have support on the ably for beingreciprocated by a lever, 0, fitted on a pivot, 19, on the outside ofpart c of the hopper, and connected inside of saidhopper to the rod 0?.by its short arm, while the long arm of said lever is connected by rod10 with a disk, g, on the end of a shaft, .9, that gears by a pinion,25, with a bevel-wheel, a, on one of the roller-drums. The rod a carriesvertical arms 12, which extend from bottom to top of the hopper, andnear the upper ends have cross or horizontal armso, ranging transverselyto the hopper, by which the contents of the hopper will be thoroughlystirred. and effectually discharged from it.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with parallel frame-bars f f and afastening device, m,of the two hopper-sections e e, pivoted at k and provided withoverlapping ends 42 j, wherebythe feed may be adjusted by lettingdownthe sections Witnesses:

ALFRED B. HAUsE,

JONATHAN D. THOMAS.

